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Local caching DNS server #109

Closed RobinMcCorkell closed 9 years ago

RobinMcCorkell commented 9 years ago

To achieve failover redundancy, we need to replace Linux's DNS resolver, which is dumb and always tries the first entry, with a caching server running locally that can temporarily disable a failed server, and speed up DNS queries in the process.

Possible candidates are: unbound, dnsmasq